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“I wrote the final chapters day and night in anguish and terrible uncertainty,” he reported to his niece. “I had two epileptic attacks, and I was ten days over deadline.”
Elif Batuman • The Possessed
Howard Scott Warshaw
David Epstein • Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
The New Games Book
Jane McGonigal • Reality Is Broken

When there’s no place for the scalpel, words are the surgeon’s only tool.
Paul Kalanithi • When Breath Becomes Air
What was amazing to Sam—and what became a theme of the games he would go on to make with Sadie—was how quickly the world could shift. How your sense of self could change depending on your location. As Sadie would put it in an interview with Wired, “The game character, like the self, is contextual.”
Gabrielle Zevin • Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: A novel
Women, always the women. Thank goodness for the women.
Alexander Chee • The Best American Essays 2022
Books became my closest confidants, finely ground lenses providing new views of the world.